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Upcoming Concert


Music on Paintings

Saturday, May 19, 2012, 8:00 PM
The Chapel in the Good Shepherd Center

For its season finale, Seattle Modern Orchestra will present two pieces where the ideas and emotions unique to the visual arts are transformed into music. Themed Music on Paintings, this concert features two works of contemporary music for ensemble inspired by strikingly divergent paintings. To start the program, French composer Hugues Dufourt's L'Asie d'aprés Tiepolo (2009) reflects on Italian painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's Allegory of the Planets and Continents (1752), while the second half features the celebrated Rothko Chapel (1971) by American composer Morton Feldman.

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Announcing... a Matching Gift Challenge!

Several members of our community have just stepped forward to issue a matching gift challenge to support Seattle Modern Orchestra's work. They will match every dollar raised up to $3,000 - and donations will be put to use immediately toward our current season.

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It costs about $6,000 to present one of our concerts. Your donation - whatever its size - will be put to use immediately toward our current season. Together, we can make sure that contemporary music concerts like this one continue to happen. That music licensing fees are covered. That scores can be rented. That musicians get paid.

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In the News

Seattle Times
"Anyone who wants to hear how time can move at multiple speeds simultaneously - fast, slow, moderate, frantic - should drop in on Seattle Modern Orchestra's Friday concert, 'Layers of Time.'"
The SunBreak
"The ensemble's concerts are innovative and engaging, with a focus on making contemporary classical music accessible to a broad audience."
The SunBreak
"It was a magnificent evening of music and a victory of true believers: a powerful, moving, and fascinating adventure... It's the best classical performance by a group of musicians that I've seen in years."